Word: propel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the faults of world leadership may have been, we now have "scientific fanatics" at the helm, with the fiendish ambition to propel humans into outer space...
...disappointing to see another Minnesotan straining too hard to become President. We went through that with our favorite son, Harold Stassen. If the messages were indeed "secrets" on which hangs our nation's security, then our Senator's action in using them to propel himself into the limelight must be regarded as the most reckless folly...
...Athens that U.S. policy will be based on "expedients," popular disillusionment with America is mounting. Three years ago there was no anti-Americanism in Greece; now there is a good deal. Eventually this kind of feeling may become strong enough to topple the pro-Western government there, and to propel Greece right out of NATO. Even a Communist government is not entirely beyond the bounds of possibility, if the Cyprus controversy becomes sufficiently acrid...
...power. "United we fall," cracked one prominent Laborite. Socialists, tied to a creed outworn, see the Tories successfully administering their welfare state, and the public in no mood for dated dogmas. Gaitskell himself has not caught public fancy. The party has yet to find the proper rocket fuel (o propel it on the second stage to its New Jerusalem. About the only fresh election cry came from Gaitskell. In a land where only one family in three has a car, he won big cheers by offering the campaign slogan: "A car for every British family...
Professional scientific controversy suffices to elucidate the problem of fallout and nuclear radiation, and no amount of public debate can shed much light on the issue. Such unprofessional agitation can only propel the nation to a position of dangerous weakness and confusion. Disarmament may be desirable on grounds of reducing world tension and decreasing the possibility of open conflict, but it cannot be justified solely by moral arguments...